That wasn’t my experience at all when dating. Just treat them like a person. Be friends. If you get on ok, then make your move. They often beat me to it.

If the cold open approach isn’t working, change strategies.

Dating is a social activity. I’m not sure how you do it without being able to perform socially, but there’s probably resources out there to learn from.

Which of them are blocking EU attempts to mandate government backdoors?

If you mistook ‘don’t be creepy’ for ‘don’t approach women at all,’ then yeah. You’re probably in a mental place where you shouldn’t approach.

Are you taking the time away from the computer to participate in her interests?

Just be funny and not a piece of shit. My wife is so gorgeous, people immediately know I have a good sense of humor and I’m supportive. I’m certainly not rich.

Granted, this is not a good approach for the apps. You need to be able to sell yourself in person. Best dating strategy in this case is making many friends, and some of them will be charmed into attraction. If I were dating, speed dating would probably be workable for this approach.

Change is not chaos. Tone it down. It’s just an adjustment to changing status quo.

She’ll make excuses for python inefficiencies. ‘But it has so many libraries available!’

Because they support limited privacy from corporations, but zero privacy from government. The neoliberals don’t consider that a double standard.

No, those countries are not enshrining in law the requirement for backdoors to serve your own government, for which you’ll be required to comply.

Privacy from whom? Privacy from corporations means nothing if you have zero privacy from a neoliberal corporate government.

Accidental self-own admitting to everyone you haven’t been paying attention to the EU’s aggressive software backdoor agenda.

If you don’t have privacy from the government, you don’t have privacy.

Easy to do, when you’re intentionally targeting journalists.

They bombed one journalist’s family while he was live on air, just to fuck with him. Unprecedented cruelty.

That’s been exactly the case with multiple researchers and professors for the past decade. They’re not complying with disclosure laws.

Are you sure that you know how it works? They are legally required to disclose those relationships and payments received.

Not really. Sinclair broadcasting bought up most of them. Unfortunately all of the best investigative reporting is being relegated to bloggers and independent journalists.

We really need to bring back laws on limiting media ownership.

The Intercept revealed Reality Winner as their source to the government, and helped bury the Hunter Biden laptop story. Fuck the Intercept.

Incorrect. If they weren’t doing anything wrong, they wouldn’t be hiding supplemental income from and agreements with Chinese sources.

I don’t even oppose partnerships with China. I’m fairly pro-China. But it needs to be done out in the open, with proper procedure followed.

The press remained almost unanimously silent on the Assange persecution, the abductions & assassination of journalists by US allies, and the slaughter of journalists by Israel.

The press itself played a pivotal role in eliminating the free press.

ETA: Let me be clear- I don’t simply mean “eliminating the free press” in principle. I say it in the most literal sense. I mean literal wholesale slaughter of journalists by the west.

I’d be shocked if this isn’t another professor that’s been caught working with China. Been a lot of that being brought to light throughout academia.

Doesn’t look good within the context of everything else going on right now.